Ex-NSA bod sues US govt for 'illegally spying' on Americans: We drill into 'explosive' 'lawsuit'

Solarquest

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Friend, do we have a bizarre legal battle for you

Analysis In an extraordinary and expansive lawsuit, former CIA and NSA contractor Dennis Montgomery has teamed up with the lawyer who brought down the NSA's mass surveillance operation – Larry Klayman – to sue all the US intelligence services and their former and current heads personally, as well as former president Barack Obama, for illegal surveillance.

The complaint [PDF], filed earlier this week in Washington, DC, makes a wide range of allegations including the fact that the intelligence services are carrying out illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of millions of Americans, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, hundreds of judges and businessmen, Donald J. Trump – and the two litigants themselves.

It claims that Montgomery has solid evidence of the illegal spying operation but that the FBI stormed his house and tied him to a tree, causing or perhaps exacerbating a brain aneurysm, in an effort to find the evidence.

Montgomery claims he was then forced to hand over 47 hard drives containing 600 million classified US government files that were evidence of illegal spying – and that despite FBI head James Comey himself saying he would look into the case, it has been dropped by the FBI. Why? Because the FBI is itself part of the conspiracy.

Listed under facts in the lawsuit is the statement that "Defendants Comey [FBI], Rogers [NSA], Pompeo [CIA], Coats [DNI], Obama, Clapper [DNI] and Brennan [CIA] acted outside the scopes of their employment, in their personal capacities, to illegally and unconstitutionally spy on millions of Americans, including Plaintiffs, without probable cause or a warrant, and continue to do so through surrogates in the Obama Deep State."

Mention of the Deep State itself has been enough to get the right-wing fringe of America in a lather, and so the lawsuit has already been picking up notoriety and was featured this week on Fox News' Sean Hannity TV show in a case that is "way larger than Snowden."

The lawsuit wants a jury trial and is seeking $235m in punitive damages and compensation of $16m.

Now waaaaait a minute
So, we may have had James Comey testifying in Congress earlier today but the obvious question is: why haven't we heard more about this extraordinary case in which we have conclusive evidence of widespread illegal surveillance of American citizens?

And the answer is: because it is a liberal mainstream media conspiracy to keep the people uninformed and ignorant as their representatives continue to wipe their asses with the Constitution and spit on the graves of the Founders.
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tryfon

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why haven't we heard more about this extraordinary case in which we have conclusive evidence of widespread illegal surveillance of American citizens?

And the answer is: because it is a liberal mainstream media conspiracy to keep the people uninformed and ignorant as their representatives continue to wipe their asses with the Constitution and spit on the graves of the Founders.
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Some real truth right there. Appreciate the writer's honesty
 

ravi prakash saini

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but in terrorist infested era what option does any govt have except default deny approach.however it is up to the respective govt to decide how far it can go in the name of security
like in cyber world in default deny approach every program is malicious until it proves its innocence where as in real world the traditional approach is every one is innocent until proved otherwise but this theory stands upside down when dealing with terrorist.
it is very difficult to draw the line and it becomes facet of the same coin be it terrorist or politician both wants power.
and there is a saying in India "the one who has the power is always innocent "
Obama was innocent that time
trump is innocent this time
and we ,the general public ,is always guilty
 

Entreri

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The biggest terrorists historically have been the nation states or "king" types.

These non-nation state terrorists are minor actors.

We have to be careful that the we don't slowly lose our freedoms and end up on the path to North Korea.
 

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